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Title 8 — ZONING›Division 84 — LAND USE DISTRICTS›Chapter 84-54 — C GENERAL COMMERCIAL DISTRICT

Contra Costa County Municipal Code Art. 84-54.4 Uses

Contra Costa County Municipal Code · 2026-10 edition · updated 2026-10-04 · Contra Costa County

Cite as: Contra Costa County Municipal Code Article 84-54.4 · Text as of 2026-10-04

84-54.402 - Uses allowed.

The following uses are allowed in C districts:

(1) All types of wholesale businesses, warehouses, freight terminals, trucking yards, lumberyards, cabinet shops, sheet metal shops, auto repair garages, contractor's yards, and uses allowed in single-family and two-family residential districts without or with a land use permit;

(2) Uses allowed in N-B and R-B districts;

(3) Animal hospitals;

(4) Commercial dog kennels;

(5) Reserved;

(6) Emergency shelters that meet the requirements of Chapter 82-46.

(Ord. No. 2022-03 § XIII, 5-24-22; Ords. 76-36 § 4, 1781 § 8, 1569 § 20: prior code § 8161(a): Ords. 1046 § 3, 697 § 2, 382 § 4D).

(Ord. No. 2014-11, § VII, 11-4-14)

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84-54.404 - Uses—Requiring land use permit.

In the C district the following uses are permitted after the issuance of a land use permit:

(1) Transit-mix plants;

(2) Motels;

(3) Hotels;

(4) Structures having three or more residential apartment units. Minimum off-street parking requirements for apartment units shall be as required in Section 84-24.1202;

(5) Reserved;

(6) Reserved;

(7) Where a road, having a right-of-way width of 55 feet or less, forms the common boundary between a district of this classification and a district of any residential classification, no access to property in the district of this classification adjacent to such common boundary shall be permitted to or from such road until a land use permit therefor has been obtained. The permit will be determined by the effects of traffic upon such a road occasioned by use within such district, the characteristics of the adjacent areas, traffic problems, pedestrian traffic, and other considerations found pertinent to the particular area concerned.

(8) Commercial cannabis activities that meet the requirements of Chapter 88-28.

(Ord. No. 2022-03, § XIV, 5-24-22; Ord. No. 2018-18, § 5, 6-26-18; Ord. 67-39 § 3, 1967: Ord. 67-27 § 1, 1967: Ord. 2011: Ord. 1984: Ord. 1781: Ord. 1569: prior code § 8161(b): Ord. 1046: Ord. 382).

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